Patent 7843672 was granted and assigned to Silicon Motion on November, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An I/O regulating circuitry is provided. The I/O regulating circuitry omits the ESD device in a CMOS process with a minimized critical dimension to reduce chip size while still maintaining electrostatic discharge immunity. The I/O regulating circuitry is applied in MLC flash memory applications and the flash controller thereof.